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Thread #16606   Message #4013892
Posted By: Joe Offer
15-Oct-19 - 10:40 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Last Farewell (from New Christy Minstrels
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Last Farewell (from New Christy Minstrels
Here's the recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnhN7iv4XY0
I hear just one word different from Barry Taylor's transcription.

LAST FAREWELL
(Randy Sparks)

I'm going away at eventide,
Across the wild and the rolling sea;
I bid you stay, stay here by my side,
And share a last farewell with thee.

Through snowclad mountains, proud and tall,
Or a thousand miles 'cross the burning sand;
Our last farewell, then will I recall
When I'm alone in a far-off land.

A wand'rin' song is all I know,
Yet I love you more, more than words can tell;
I hear the call and I'm bound to go,
I leave you now with a last farewell.


Melody: Waly, Waly

From the 1963 New Christy Minstrels Ramblin' album